You're still adding a cost for someone to do something that is generally considered to be a good action. You're still letting the annoyance of a robocall put a burden on other positive or not-harmful activities.
Its like saying "This restaurant served undercooked roadkill so now we have to make the free soup kitchen across the street buy a license".
This is how we lose our freedoms. An annoyance leads to bans and requirements that impact much more important matters.
rtfa-troll points out below that anonymous calls are vital for tipsters and whistleblowers. Are you willing to sacrifice that very important check for the sake of not getting a robocall?
More importantly, there are bans and requirements in place *now* that should prevent these robocalls from happening. Where did you get the idea that criminals follow the law?
Not entirely true. Good security is based on 3 things:
- something only you have (your graphics card, a physical key)
- something only you know (a password)
- something only you are (biometrics, typing patterns)
As it stands today you usually have one of those things, the password. Adding in something difficult to spoof as the summary suggests is an improvement. So now you have to have a password and a graphics card with certain flaws.
I agree with your sentiments though. This is an interesting idea but seems awkward to implement.
It did help that our local power utility subsidized these bulbs, they're expensive - between $40 - $50 a pop. I got mine for half price because of the subsidy.
No you got yours for half price up front, with the remaining half coming from either your electric bill or taxes over time. No such thing as a free lunch.
I don't talk on my phone in the car because I find driving much more fun and interesting. I *could* catch up on some calls and such, but it'd suck all the fun out of one of the last few quiet places I have left. I really enjoy working the gears and listening to the car do its thing. Keeping your head up and your eyes open is a proper driving posture feels good physically. I don't even have to be pushing the car hard, though that does add to the fun.
Driving is fun! Don't dilute it with annoying calls, or inane texts and tweets.
Pay attention on the next long flight. At some point the pilots will need a stretch and a piss. The cabin crew will make some announcement that the forward lav is closed and to use the aft lav. A stewardess will block the aisles to the forward lav with a drink cart and essentially stand guard. Then you'll see the pilots come out for a tinkle one at a time.
I file mine in my todo.txt, which also includes missing features. Since I don't do a release if there are *any* known outstanding bugs, "bugs" and "incomplete features" are essentially the same for me.
If "low power" wasn't a requirement you could do it for almost free. Old PCs are tossed every day that would run NTPd just fine. Problem is the damn thing would sit there humming away eating power.
Is anyone publishing a minimal NTP server VM image?
What would be required for a bare bones NTP server? It seems like a light weight, low-impact service
- A device that runs linux
- A device that has a wired network port
- A device that has a USB and serial port (for integrating with hardware clocks/GPS)
- Low power (possibly PoE)
We're talking on the order of MB of storage and memory. Something that can be plugged in near a window and forgotten for years.
So in a loser pays system, what happens if you're on the wrong end of a lawsuit from one of those $500/hr lawyer teams and you can only pony up for a $150/hour lawyer and you lose?
Funny thing about that. Usually theres a lot of other links between a person and a crime:
- was seen nearby
- had a motive
- in many cases knew the victim
If you're getting down to using existing ballistic fingerprinting (hell regular fingerprinting for that matter) you're chasing a very cold trail.
And please tell me who is going to tell what I must put on my site so it isn't domain squatting? That would mean telling be what content I can not put on my site. That is a slippery slope to censorship.
I am against domain squatting just as you are, but I am even more against people telling me what I can put on my site and what not.
Exactly. What constitutes "use it" in "use it or lose it"?
Must I have a landing page with contact info? Must I have some sort of somewhat functional website? What if I'm using the domain to host a private VPN for me? Just an email server? Is a redirect from something.mine to mine.com acceptable?
Furthermore, if its location spoofing for US-services the VPN has to terminate in the US. We have laws and a mostly functional society over here. Thats a huge protection.
If the primary purpose of the VPN is just location spoofing who cares if its safe? Go with the cheapest option, don't give them a direct credit card payment (ie PayPal, a temporary card number, or a one time card) and use the one that works. If you need to do something 'secure' over that VPN double down and use SSL.
The evil hackers in Slobenia aren't interested in your Netflix queue.
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The move somewhere else if you don't lik....oh right.
You're still adding a cost for someone to do something that is generally considered to be a good action. You're still letting the annoyance of a robocall put a burden on other positive or not-harmful activities.
Its like saying "This restaurant served undercooked roadkill so now we have to make the free soup kitchen across the street buy a license".
This is how we lose our freedoms. An annoyance leads to bans and requirements that impact much more important matters.
rtfa-troll points out below that anonymous calls are vital for tipsters and whistleblowers. Are you willing to sacrifice that very important check for the sake of not getting a robocall?
More importantly, there are bans and requirements in place *now* that should prevent these robocalls from happening. Where did you get the idea that criminals follow the law?
Here is the correct link
Not entirely true. Good security is based on 3 things:
- something only you have (your graphics card, a physical key)
- something only you know (a password)
- something only you are (biometrics, typing patterns)
As it stands today you usually have one of those things, the password. Adding in something difficult to spoof as the summary suggests is an improvement. So now you have to have a password and a graphics card with certain flaws.
I agree with your sentiments though. This is an interesting idea but seems awkward to implement.
They'd need a pretty good magnifying lens to accomplish that.
It did help that our local power utility subsidized these bulbs, they're expensive - between $40 - $50 a pop. I got mine for half price because of the subsidy.
No you got yours for half price up front, with the remaining half coming from either your electric bill or taxes over time. No such thing as a free lunch.
They want robots they can put in carbonite at night and not pay.
That wouldn't be efficient at all, the hibernation sickness would have them wiped out for the first half of the shift at least!
The Pontiac Aztek Owners Club agrees
Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and IE will all support this...in slightly different ways.
I don't talk on my phone in the car because I find driving much more fun and interesting. I *could* catch up on some calls and such, but it'd suck all the fun out of one of the last few quiet places I have left. I really enjoy working the gears and listening to the car do its thing. Keeping your head up and your eyes open is a proper driving posture feels good physically. I don't even have to be pushing the car hard, though that does add to the fun.
Driving is fun! Don't dilute it with annoying calls, or inane texts and tweets.
Pay attention on the next long flight. At some point the pilots will need a stretch and a piss. The cabin crew will make some announcement that the forward lav is closed and to use the aft lav. A stewardess will block the aisles to the forward lav with a drink cart and essentially stand guard. Then you'll see the pilots come out for a tinkle one at a time.
I file mine in my todo.txt, which also includes missing features. Since I don't do a release if there are *any* known outstanding bugs, "bugs" and "incomplete features" are essentially the same for me.
So you never release?
I would be calling for people to be put against the wall for this.
-nB
There is only one person who can be put to the wall for failure to control your own finances.
If "low power" wasn't a requirement you could do it for almost free. Old PCs are tossed every day that would run NTPd just fine. Problem is the damn thing would sit there humming away eating power.
Is anyone publishing a minimal NTP server VM image?
What would be required for a bare bones NTP server? It seems like a light weight, low-impact service
- A device that runs linux
- A device that has a wired network port
- A device that has a USB and serial port (for integrating with hardware clocks/GPS)
- Low power (possibly PoE)
We're talking on the order of MB of storage and memory. Something that can be plugged in near a window and forgotten for years.
So how do I get the GPS receiver to get a time signal in my basement or datacenter?
Why do you have to complain to some board? Can't you just cancel the account, get a new card from a new company, and transfer the balance?
So in a loser pays system, what happens if you're on the wrong end of a lawsuit from one of those $500/hr lawyer teams and you can only pony up for a $150/hour lawyer and you lose?
Funny thing about that. Usually theres a lot of other links between a person and a crime:
- was seen nearby
- had a motive
- in many cases knew the victim
If you're getting down to using existing ballistic fingerprinting (hell regular fingerprinting for that matter) you're chasing a very cold trail.
And please tell me who is going to tell what I must put on my site so it isn't domain squatting? That would mean telling be what content I can not put on my site. That is a slippery slope to censorship.
I am against domain squatting just as you are, but I am even more against people telling me what I can put on my site and what not.
Exactly. What constitutes "use it" in "use it or lose it"?
Must I have a landing page with contact info? Must I have some sort of somewhat functional website? What if I'm using the domain to host a private VPN for me? Just an email server? Is a redirect from something.mine to mine.com acceptable?
Furthermore, if its location spoofing for US-services the VPN has to terminate in the US. We have laws and a mostly functional society over here. Thats a huge protection.
If the primary purpose of the VPN is just location spoofing who cares if its safe? Go with the cheapest option, don't give them a direct credit card payment (ie PayPal, a temporary card number, or a one time card) and use the one that works. If you need to do something 'secure' over that VPN double down and use SSL.
The evil hackers in Slobenia aren't interested in your Netflix queue.
Don't forget that when providing cellular signals to locations with poor radio reception that it somehow has to get a GPS signal. Thats a feature.
The simpler the technology, the less it breaks.
In the Apollo program, they had slide rules. Which continue to work even if the cabin is depressurized and the crew has not depressurized